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As the Council of Europe suggests foreign language teaching needs to comprise not only linguistic performance but also intercultural consciousness and intercultural skills. Despite being grammatically and lexically competent, many university students…

The studies on the integrating out of class materials with class materials mostly show the crucial role of this task for teachers and its benefits for students. This study investigates the effect of the integrating currents issues of interest into…

The study examines the effect of training in online concordancing tools: BNC, Lextutor, and AntConc 3.2.1 on Thai undergraduate students’ L2 collocation activation. The freeware concordancers were introduced for the experimental group; the subjects,…

The aim of this study was to investigate underline the benefits of using literature in EFL classes. Short Stories can be used as a good source in ELT classes in almost all levels depending on the difficulty status of the story. Due to their length …

Often when we are speaking a foreign language, we focus on its national identity which tends to be embodied in various stereotypes and widespreadclichés. Given the increased cultural heterogeneity of modern society, the cultural diversity awareness…

The purpose of this study aimed to investigate the validity of multiple-matching tasks by examining test-taking processes. Specifically, test-taking processes were analyzed by test-taking strategies. Hence, the researcher identified what test-taking…

Both L2 students and teacher are well aware of the fact that verbal aspect is one of the most difficult issues to master in Slavic languages. The reason for this is mainly its complexity. Verbal aspect may appear to be a grammatical issue…

The Cenci is the embodiment of Cenci and Beatrice's struggle for power and dominance. From the outset, the reader is informed about Cenci’s making abuse of power to perform whatever he wishes; he exonerated himself from charges by using his money and…

It is very difficult to make decisions, especially when one's future depends on it. The focus of this research is on elaborating the elements of violence and hatred in Emily Brontë’s only novel, Wuthering Heights. Catherine, the heroine of the story,…

A firm mastery of target language vocabulary is crucial for academic reading performance. Therefore, teachers should equip learners with tools that would help them understand and learn lexical items.To this end, we propose a graded instructional…